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Enclosed with No. 395. Comments on futility of making concessions to Germany in vain hope that she will be conciliated; recalls gratuitous concessions of last twenty years during which a perpetual state of tension has existed between England and Germany.

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Address at Thanksgiving dinner of American Colony, Hotel de Londres, Antwerp.

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Describes reception in Antwerp of Crown Prince Leopold and Princess Astrid following their marriage.

Scope and Contents Enumerates the varied duties of Foreign Service officers; general public has little idea of work involved; all reports are sent to State Department, and from there copies are sent to the interested Department such as Agriculture or Commerce; reports are then distributed directly to the individuals or firms who will find them useful, but who probably will not know they are the work of the Consular officers; Commerce Department, for instance, gets larger appropriation, while State Department...

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Press release from the Secretary of State re the disturbances in Palestine and the efforts of Mr. Paul Knabenshue, American Consul General, to protect American citizens and their property; some unreasonable requests have no doubt been made, but the Department has confidence in his ability and judgment.

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An article of the superfluous world trade extension agencies, particularly those of the Department of Commerce.

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Dispatch re the importance of informing Foreign Service officers regularly as to social and economic background of the countries to which they are accredited.

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Letter of transmittal accompanying copy of above dispatch.

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Lacks enclosures. Comments on enclosures apparently critical of Messersmith's

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Indignant at attacks on Messersmith in the New York Herald and particularly at Walter Lippmann.

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Visa to be given Einstein after questioning, but Einstein, angry, may cancel trip to America.

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5 copies, mounted. Walter Lippmann's column in which he scores Messersmith for his handling of the Einstein case.

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4 cols., mounted. 2 copies. "Einstein's ultimatum brings quick visa; our Consul angered him by political quiz"; the State Department had forwarded to the Consulate in Berlin a complaint from the Woman Patriot Corporation that Einstein, because of his affiliation with Communist organizations, should not be admitted to the U.S.; Secretary of State Stimson is quoted as saying that the procedure was routine.

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2 cols., mounted. Einstein to be given visa after questioning.

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3 cols., mounted. 2 copies of second and third columns. The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, meeting with Mrs. Gerard Swope, local chairman, demands recall of George S. Messersmith; from Caputh, Germany, Dec. 6, by United Press, Einstein waives consul's "joke", laughs off "Inquisition" as schoolboy prank and accepts visa; the American Civil Liberties Union makes inquiries about State Department practices.

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4 cuttings mounted on 1 leaf. Women's International League for Peace and Freedom demands recall of Messersmith; Einstein laughs off "inquisition" as schoolboy prank and accepts visa; American Civil Liberties Union declares protest of Woman Patriot Corporation prejudiced; Walter Lippmann's attack on Messersmith in his "note on the Perfect Bureaucrat"; editorial ridicules Woman Patriot Corporation, but describes as childish Einstein's reaction to his questioning.